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Originally Posted by AndrewPiChi
Yup, cause all male chapters are not apo right?
Now, on pledging, pledging a weak applicant is like having a weak link in the chain or like having a coward in the ranks. I'd rather have ten people that bleed their fraternity than 200 people that are only active for a semester or two.
And on being like more a traditional fraternity as opposed than being different and accepting of all? I mean, it works a whole lot better than being a huge blob of unorganized and uncommitted brothers. I'll put my money where my mouth is, I think we won more national awards than anyone in region V, and hands down we were one of the smallest chapters to.
Now when my grandfather pledged Alpha Phi Omega in 1954, they're chapter was incredibly selective. Eagle Scouts and military only, I asked him how many service projects they did and he said 'well we ran a bookstore'. I was like is that it?
It was apparently the same thing my chapter early on as well, Pi Chi from what I hear was just an extension of rotc.
Attending national stuff doesn't really even register to me anymore as part of a 'fraternity resume' that a bunch of people keep throwing around here. I attended this and this, who the hell cares.
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You are oversimplifying a great deal of the Alpha Phi Omega experience.
1) Pledging a weak applicant is not at all like having a coward in the ranks. Pledging is not equal to initiating. A good pledging program will have several opportunities for reflection, self-assessment, and group assessment. Someone who is weak at the beginning has the (mandated) opportunity to prove themselves worthy by the end.
2) Quality and quantity are not mutually exclusive.
3) Attendance and support of national conventions does matter -- it not only demonstrates the commitment, but suggests a knowledge of how the fraternity operates.
Nobody here was throwing around their resume -- they are demonstrating an understanding of how the fraternity runs, commitment to the fraternity over a long period of time, and showing that it doesn't matter the date on your shingle as much as the quality of what you're doing for Alpha Phi Omega right now.
As stated earlier, there are many ways to serve, especially upon graduation:
1) Advise a chapter. There are no limits on the number of advisors a chapter can have.
2) Section, Region, or National Volunteer. I have (also) done all three and they are very different at each level.
3) Annual giving -- for those who are fine putting their money where their mouth is.
4) Joining or starting an alumni association and keeping it going -- if you're not selected to advise a chapter and can't seem to get your foot in the door with volunteering as staff, nobody can stop you from joining or starting an alumni association if you have done it by the rules (which are pretty loose, if you ask me)
I have always taken the stance that there is no good excuse for inactivity in APO after graduation.
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